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ALHSGE V
study question for history
Term | Definition |
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Barbed Wire | Invention that encouraged the settlement of the Midwest |
Montana | Location of many battles in the 1800s between U.S. military and Native Americans |
Harvesters, threshers | Farm inventions that led to increased crop production |
Populist | Political party formed in the 1890s |
Alabama railroads | Type of transportation created to support coal and iron industries in the state of Alabama |
W.E.B. Du Bois | Major social reformer from the progressive era |
Telephone, typewriter | Types of Industries that showed the growth of technology in America |
Suffrage | The right for women to vote |
George Washington Carver | Tuskegee Institute agricultural director that helped southern farmers |
Sherman Antitrust Act | Federal legislation that was passed to regulate business |
Plessy v. Ferguson | Famous Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation in 1896 |
Buffalo | Native Americans of the plains depended on this animal for survival |
Thomas Edison | Inventor of the light bulb |
Woodrow Wilson | Democratic candidate for president in 1912 |
Muckrakers | Name that Theodore Roosevelt gave journalists who exposed corruption |
The Grange | Name of political party given to farmers who organized politically |
Dawes Act | A scheme by the U.S. government to settle Indians on plots of land |
Clayton Anti-Trust Act | An act passed by Woodrow Wilson to break up monopolies |
Steel | Major industry in the state of Alabama in the late 1800s |
Sixteenth amendment | Required Americans to pay income taxes |
Sitting Bull | Famous Sioux Indian chief |
Farmer's Alliance | Farmers organization formed to fight big business |
Robber Barons | Captains of industry during the late 1800s |
The Jungle | A book that caused the government to increase consumer protection guidelines |
Seventeenth Amendment | Requires that the United States senators be elected by voters in their state |